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Warmer ocean speeding Greenland glacier melt

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Glaciers in West Greenland are melting 100 times more rapidly at their end points beneath the ocean than they are at their surfaces, according to a UC Irvine/NASA study. Alan Buis, NASA\’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Glaciers in West Greenland are melting 100 times more rapidly at their end points beneath the ocean than they are at their surfaces, according to a UC Irvine/NASA study published online this week in Nature Geoscience. The study results suggest this undersea melting caused...

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Climate change for kids

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UCI student nonprofit CLEAN Education conducts grade-appropriate lessons on climate change for elementary and middle school classrooms. Laura Rico, University Communications You could teach climate change by describing the melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels. Or you could talk about the North American pika, a rabbit relative that faces an uncertain future in the Rocky Mountains as temperatures rise. “What happens when the pika reaches the top of the mountain?” UC Irvine ecology...

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Measuring melting ice sheets

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Global climate change – especially as it relates to glacial melting and rising ocean levels – is the subject of much debate and research. Eric Rignot, Earth system science professor, studies ice sheet melting in Antarctica and Greenland. He will talk about his work March 31 as part of the 2008-09 Discover the Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications Global climate change – especially as it relates to glacial melting and rising...

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